John Morley: “But the great thing is to be right; and as far as matters have yet advanced, I see no reason to be apprehensive in this…”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.